On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 06:30:00 +0100, Cliff Sarginson
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On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 05:38:26PM +1300, Richard Shea wrote:
Hi - For the first time ever I have tried to upgrade a FreeBSD by using
CVS. In fact I used CVSUPIT. I'm on 4.4-RELEASE and I just wanted to move
up to
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 08:50:36PM +1300, Richard Shea wrote:
On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 18:01:20 +1300, Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
[...]
If you intend on just upgrading your system sources, you don't need
ports-all and doc-all. src-all is approx 298M and the ports-all is
about 162M.
On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 21:14:49 +1300, Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 08:50:36PM +1300, Richard Shea wrote:
On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 18:01:20 +1300, Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
[...]
If you intend on just upgrading your system sources, you don't need
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 01:58:03AM -0500, Matthew Emmerton wrote:
Hi all, I'm running into a rather interesting modem problem with one of my
boxes. Just installed an external 28.8k modem for faxing onto it (and the
occasional PPP when needed) and I can't seem to find the port the modem is
Interesting to see that other people found they worked fine with RELEASE. I
had to update my system to STABLE before GLX would work, although I had no
problems otherwise. Also, GLX would only work with an XFree86 installed from
ports, not with one installed from the FreeBSD binaries on
Peter Milne ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
What is the command to find out what colors Freebsd is capable of. I
forgot it and I cant seem to find it.
- Is the command 'vidcontrol show' what youre looking for?
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Just found this in my daily run report and I'm wondering what it
means.
fat_man.ascendency.net group diffs:
16a17
cyrus:*:60:daemon
30d30
cyrus:*:60:daemon
I'm concerned because I'm using SMTP-AUTH (via cyrus). Is someone
messing with my
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 07:43:04AM -0600, Mike Loiterman wrote:
fat_man.ascendency.net group diffs:
16a17
cyrus:*:60:daemon
30d30
cyrus:*:60:daemon
Somebody moved that entry from line 16 to line 30 of /etc/group.
I'm concerned because I'm using SMTP-AUTH (via cyrus). Is someone
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I also notice the following in daily mail report
Checking for rejected mail hosts:
1 docserver.cac.washington.edu
and in daily security report:
about 50 or 60
swap_pager_getswapspace: failed
snip
swap_pager_getswapspace: failed
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Sorry one more post!
I did add and delete a test user in the time span that the log
covers. I just checked on cyrus is back to line 17 in /etc/group.
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On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 07:57:36AM -0600, Mike Loiterman wrote:
I did add and delete a test user in the time span that the log
covers. I just checked on cyrus is back to line 17 in /etc/group.
My bad - the line got moved from line 30 to line 17.
In:
16a17
cyrus:*:60:daemon
Out:
30d30
From: Bill Baird [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: make from file not ftp
I am trying to install Mozilla using the make command. Its looking
for the
ftp server not the directory that I am in. Is there a way that I
can tell
it where to look or change the defalt. Trying to get up and running
on the
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Ugh...sorry to bother you all again...
I just realized that I installed Pine on my windoze box yesterday.
Is it possible that that was messing with the cyrus user?
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Hi,
I have fbsd 4.7 installed on a hdd in a dev machine which I want to transfer
to and from another machine. However the current machine is a K6-2 CPU and the target
machine is an AMD Athlon 1900+ - a generic kernel will not work
when I transfer the hdd between machines.
I've just built a new
At 03:05 PM 11.23.2002 +, Jez Hancock wrote:
Hi,
I have fbsd 4.7 installed on a hdd in a dev machine which I want to transfer
to and from another machine. However the current machine is a K6-2 CPU
and the target
machine is an AMD Athlon 1900+ - a generic kernel will not work
when I transfer
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 09:35:35AM -0600, Jack L. Stone wrote:
At 03:05 PM 11.23.2002 +, Jez Hancock wrote:
Hi,
I have fbsd 4.7 installed on a hdd in a dev machine which I want to transfer
to and from another machine. However the current machine is a K6-2 CPU
and the target
machine is
Mike Loiterman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I also notice the following in daily mail report
Checking for rejected mail hosts:
1 docserver.cac.washington.edu
That's fine really. They tried to use your host as a mail relay
and got rejected. Nothing to worry about here.
and in daily
Mike Loiterman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ugh...sorry to bother you all again...
I just realized that I installed Pine on my windoze box yesterday.
Is it possible that that was messing with the cyrus user?
Nah, not really. Sysinstall is more likely to have been the
one who did the change.
At 04:09 PM 11.23.2002 +, Jez Hancock wrote:
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 09:35:35AM -0600, Jack L. Stone wrote:
At 03:05 PM 11.23.2002 +, Jez Hancock wrote:
Hi,
I have fbsd 4.7 installed on a hdd in a dev machine which I want to
transfer
to and from another machine. However the current
On 2002-11-23 10:39, Jack L. Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Don't forget to keep track of your kernel config files. They should be
symlinked to a directory separate from the /usr/src/sys/i386/conf just in
case you suddenly decide to delete your /usr/src and forget the kernel.conf
is in there.
I just visited Alchemestry
and thought that you might want to check it out as well. You
can visit the website by clicking
http://www.ric1.com/c.e?2266C225270D6691
Here's a description of what the website is all about:
Check it out!. If you visit the site and use its Recommend-
It(R) feature
I want to read busy mailing lists with nn or trn. I have space to
store the messages as news articles locally. I'm looking for a
system that will take incoming list mail and deposit it in newsgroups
I create for them on this machine. I use procmail, so it would be
fine to pass off list mail
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 01:42:13PM -0500, Doug Lee wrote:
I want to read busy mailing lists with nn or trn. I have space to
store the messages as news articles locally. I'm looking for a
system that will take incoming list mail and deposit it in newsgroups
I create for them on this machine.
procmailrc(5) advises us to use per-recipe local lock files instead of
using the LOCKFILE environment variable to set up a global one. I use
LOGFILE to log abstracts for deliveries though, and at busy moments,
these abstracts are getting intermingled, making it impossible for
scripts to process
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-11-23 14:02:28 +:
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 07:57:36AM -0600, Mike Loiterman wrote:
I did add and delete a test user in the time span that the log
covers. I just checked on cyrus is back to line 17 in /etc/group.
My bad - the line got moved from line 30 to
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-11-23 19:11:59 +0200:
On 2002-11-23 10:39, Jack L. Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Don't forget to keep track of your kernel config files. They should be
symlinked to a directory separate from the /usr/src/sys/i386/conf
just in case you suddenly decide to delete
James Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Critical Question: After following a couple security guides (namely
http://defcon1.org/html/Security/Secure-Guide/secure-guide.html
http://draenor.org/securebsd/secure.txt
http://sddi.net/FBSDSecCheckList.html
http://people.freebsd.org/~jkb/howto.html), I
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 01:37:00PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote:
It's likely that procmail does not lock LOGFILE, and from looking at
the source it writes the abstract with a huge number of separate
write() calls. You're probably stuck with using a global lockfile,
which should force serial access
In the last episode (Nov 23), Doug Lee said:
procmailrc(5) advises us to use per-recipe local lock files instead
of using the LOCKFILE environment variable to set up a global one. I
use LOGFILE to log abstracts for deliveries though, and at busy
moments, these abstracts are getting
lines as long as 436 characters?
hit enter every now and then, please!
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-11-20 11:59:45 -0800:
I downloaded your FTP boot floppies for versions 4.6, then 4.6.2, and
4.7, kern.flp and mfsroot.flp, used FDImage to put them on MSDos
floppies but they failed to get
On Saturday 23 November 2002 12:11, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
On 2002-11-23 10:39, Jack L. Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Don't forget to keep track of your kernel config files. They should be
symlinked to a directory separate from the /usr/src/sys/i386/conf just
in case you suddenly decide
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 12:25:16PM +0100, Lauri Watts wrote:
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On Saturday 23 November 2002 01.33, Cliff Sarginson wrote:
Hello,
I am trying to disable the Desktop Menu in KDE, but it ignores me.
Anyone happen to know a manual method of doing
Hi!!
My name is Manuel Trujillo, from Spain. First, I will apologize about my
english... sorry :(
Well, I use freebsd since february-2002, and I'm very happy with it. But my
problem is now, when I change my pc hardware.
I've a SIS 648 MAX motherboard, whit the SIS648 driver, a Seagate 80Gb 7200
hi guys, spent 3 hours with google trying to find a solution
for this... help?
problem: Mounting root from ufs:/dev/idad0s1a hangs machine with smp enabled
machine: proliant 6000
procs: (4) matched stepping ppro 200's
ram: 512 megs
drives: 4 4.3 gig scsi's on a smart 2/p raid controller.
the
On Sat, 23 Nov 2002, Doug Lee wrote:
I want to read busy mailing lists with nn or trn. I have space to
store the messages as news articles locally. I'm looking for a
system that will take incoming list mail and deposit it in newsgroups
I create for them on this machine. I use procmail, so
Hi,
I'm having some problems transferring large files at a high rate of
speed over my LAN. I can get about 8mb/sec for about 7 seconds or less,
then i get the following in console:
Nov 23 14:26:19 ns1 kernel: dc0: watchdog timeout
and the ethernet card freezes and my download stops.
Any
Hi Patrick,
Another thing.
If its one of those pci nics that specify a requirement that it be
located in a slot that supported bus-mastering then it might well be
that.
Check the docs for the nic. If this is so, then move the nic to a pci
slot that supports bus-mastering (if the MoBo is a
Hi. I'm having trouble with a mission-critical file-server. Server is
FreeBSD 4.5, exporting the filesystem with Samba over gigabit copper.
Clients are Windows 2000. During multiple read/write operations between the
clients and the server, the network connection to the server will drop out
for
P.S. I'm using Samba 2.2.7.
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From: David Smithson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2002 3:46 PM
Subject: Network connection dropping during file transfers
Hi. I'm having trouble with a mission-critical file-server. Server is
In the last episode (Nov 21), Pascal Giannakakis said:
If you check out /var/db/pkg it lists what ports are installed
essentially. I don't know how to tell whether or not it?s a
dependency
though, so maybe someone else can answer that. I'd like to know that
too come to think of
Hi list,
i have installed the latest Samba here, and can access it from my W2K. I can
type \\freebsd\ in Explorer to access the FBSD-machine.
But how can i make FreeBSD use NetBIOS-names, so that commans like the one
below will work?
ping winmachine
I want my FreeBSD to resolve names this
Hi David,
By chance, is it possible for you to let the list know:-
1]Client OS
2] Are you using DHCP?
3] Are you using a Wins Server for your domain?
4] For how long does the connection stay off-line before coming back?
The reasoning behind the above is the fact that this might an issue of
how
Hi David,
By chance, is it possible for you to let the list know:-
Yes.
1]Client OS
Clients are Windows 2000 Professional SP3 and Windows 2000 Server SP3.
2] Are you using DHCP?
Yes. A Windows 2000 domain controller also provides DHCP services to the
Windows 2000 Pro clients. All
Perhaps I should include more of the smbd.log file. It follows:
[2002/11/22 06:53:49, 5] smbd/oplock.c:process_local_message(362)
process_local_message: (exclusive) oplock break request from pid 11761,
port 1601, dev = 2930c, inode = 12625652
[2002/11/22 06:53:49, 3]
Hi David,
Sorry about the delay.
I'm not sure how easy this would be for you to try, but you might want
to give this a go:
1] Hard code IP's to mac addrs in dhcpd.conf (or equivilent in Win2K)
2] Clear any netbios settings in dhcpd.conf EXCEPT the netbios-node-type
1
3] Create hosts entries
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 11:59:10PM +0100, TooManySecrets wrote:
Hi!!
My name is Manuel Trujillo, from Spain. First, I will apologize about my
english... sorry :(
Well, I use freebsd since february-2002, and I'm very happy with it. But my
problem is now, when I change my pc hardware.
I've
Hi Stacey.
See how this affects your situation. I recall that this was (might still
be) an issue with samba and windows machines using heavy load transfers.
I think on Win9x this appeared as Network Busy errors, but what do you
see in the Event Logs on Win2K?
The event logs show nothing
Hi,
I had the same problem under -CURRENT
On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Richard Tobin wrote:
Following up my own question:
I want to record audio from my sound card's line in. I'm then going to
record the output onto a CD. I'm familiar with writing CDs, but what's
the easiest way to get the
Hi folks,
I have a piece of software that I want to install via the ports tree, but
due to a specific custom behavior I want to add to it, I need to edit a
few lines in one of the source files.
Right now, I am doing the following:
cd /usr/ports/category/package
make install
cd
Josh Brooks wrote:
Hi folks,
I have a piece of software that I want to install via the ports
tree, but
due to a specific custom behavior I want to add to it, I need to
edit a
few lines in one of the source files.
Right now, I am doing the following:
cd /usr/ports/category/package
make
Hi David,
Just got to this one here.
On Sun, 2002-11-24 at 01:43, David Smithson wrote:
Hi Stacey.
See how this affects your situation. I recall that this was (might still
be) an issue with samba and windows machines using heavy load transfers.
I think on Win9x this appeared as
Heh.
See how this affects your situation. I recall that this was (might
still
be) an issue with samba and windows machines using heavy load
transfers.
I think on Win9x this appeared as Network Busy errors, but what do
you
see in the Event Logs on Win2K?
The event logs show nothing
At 2002-11-24T02:05:42Z, Josh Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
that is, how can I get the port to download and unpack all the work into
port/work directory but not actually install anything until I finish with
the edits, ect? then after that I would go do the `make install`.
There are other
On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Cliff Sarginson wrote:
I could not find what I want to know doing the ususal perusals. I
have the chance to pick up an aging Apple Laserwriter 16/600 that
supports PS2 .. I assume (hope) that this would work trouble-free on
FreeBSD. It has parallel port and ethernet
Hi David,
Let me know how you get on with the last email I sent too, okay?
On Sun, 2002-11-24 at 02:44, David Smithson wrote:
Heh.
See how this affects your situation. I recall that this was (might
still
be) an issue with samba and windows machines using heavy load
transfers.
I'm learning how the FreeBSD upgrade process works. I've got cvsup
working and can grabe 4-stable.
What I don't understand is the ports tree. Does it get updated when I do
make buildworld etc...?
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I've decided to use squirrelmail as my web based mail client. Because I
get a lot of mail I need a way of sorting my mail through squirrelmail.
For this the squirrelmail people have provided a procmail interface.
The problem with the procmail interface is that it uses ftp to change
the users
I'm learning how the FreeBSD upgrade process works. I've got cvsup
working and can grabe 4-stable.
What I don't understand is the ports tree. Does it get updated when I do
make buildworld etc...?
Nope. Look for a file ports-supfile on your system. You can make a copy
e.g. to /root and then
On Sat, 23 Nov 2002, Doug Lee wrote:
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 04:03:40PM -0700, Warren Block wrote:
An alternative that works almost as well and is simpler to set up: have
procmail sort your mail into different directories by mailing list.
That addresses the physical storage, but the
In the last episode (Nov 23), Doug Lee said:
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 01:37:00PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote:
It's likely that procmail does not lock LOGFILE, and from looking
at the source it writes the abstract with a huge number of separate
write() calls. You're probably stuck with using a
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On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Peter Milne wrote:
What is the command to find out what colors Freebsd is capable of. I forgot it and
I cant seem to find it.
Thanks,
You might try ls -G or look at the man page for ls -- the LSCOLORS
section.
Annelise
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Hello all,
I've recently retired my home Linux boxes in favor of some new
challenges... one of which is building a small home LAN server on an
older Panasonic CF-71 P2-300 laptop w/ 128MB RAM and a 6GB HD.
Installation went pretty smoothly, w/ some minor recalibration needed to
overcome
Hello,
I run an database backed website on FreeBSD 4.5 that
uses mod_perl. I do things like:
open SORTER, |/some/path/to/myprogram.pl;
system (/usr/bin/zip zipfile.zip somefile);
When I switched to FreeBSD from Linux, I noticed that
a lot of dead shells accumulated in the process
It's not much to go on but you might be able to find something under
'man dhclient.conf'
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On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 10:25:29PM -0800, nuk wrote:
Hello all,
I've recently retired my home Linux boxes in favor of some new
challenges... one of which is building a small home LAN server on an
older Panasonic CF-71 P2-300 laptop w/ 128MB RAM and a 6GB HD.
Installation went pretty
Hello.
I've been using FreeBSD for about 1 month and an half
and loving it ;)
I've managed to set my freebsd box as a nat gateway,
managed to do some port redirection to hosts on my
lan, etc.
But i was thinking on something and would like to know
if it is possible, and if yes, how.
Say i have
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